Billable Hour 'Shenanigans'

An anonymous complaint over some shocking billing practices.

I was instructed to take voluminous fax documents from boards, count the pages, estimate how long it would take him to read had he done so, and charge a pro-rata share of $375 an hour, which greatly increased his revenue. He billed my time at $150 an hour while he paid me only $15 an hour. This and other shenanigans artificially pumped up his billing from $150,000 to well over $395,000 for one [homeowner association] case, made up of nonexistent time he claimed he spent researching the client’s case.

— Anonymous law clerk who wrote the Los Angeles Times to ask if he should report his boss’s shady billing practices. The boss also fittingly makes a point of billing clients for the time they exhaust complaining to him about his bills.

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